Daniel Merida Aguilar and Sumit Nagal will fight against each other in the 1st round of the Valencia Challenger for the 1st time in their career. They are scheduled to compete on Tuesday at 6:00 pm on PISTA 1. In this post, we analyze their head to head performance and prediction.
Prediction, odds and live streaming
The pick for Tennis Tonic is Sumit Nagal who should win in 3 sets.
Sumit Nagal -> 1.86
Daniel Merida Aguilar -> 1.87
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Prediction and head to head Daniel Merida Aguilar vs. Sumit Nagal
There is no head to head record between Daniel Merida Aguilar and Sumit Nagal since this will be the first time that they will clash against each other in the main tour.
Daniel Merida Aguilar
46 - 20win/loss
172
163
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 47-24 | 15-5 | 32-15 | 0-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 57-33 | 17-9 | 40-23 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 37-31 | 16-13 | 20-17 | 1-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 29-26 | 8-9 | 21-16 | 0-1 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 12-14 | 1-4 | 11-10 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 169, Merida Aguilar will start his run in the Valencia Challenger after he played his last match in the Villena Challenger where he lost 6-4 7-6(4) to Grenier in the semifinal on the 4th of October.
Daniel has a composed 46-20 win-loss record in 2025, 31-13 on clay (See FULL STATS).
His best result of the season was conquering the title the Pozoblanco Challenger where he overcame Fajing Sun in the final 6-3 6-4.
Talking about his overall career, Daniel has an overall 182-127 record. He has a positive 124-82 record on clay.
Previously in the Valencia Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2022. See his history.
Sumit Nagal
32 - 26win/loss
273
68
| Year | Total | Hard | Clay | I.hard | Grass | Carpet |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34-27 | 2-3 | 30-23 | 2-0 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2024 | 32-29 | 15-13 | 16-11 | 1-4 | 0-1 | 0-0 |
| 2023 | 46-29 | 9-8 | 32-17 | 5-4 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2022 | 17-18 | 0-1 | 16-17 | 1-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
| 2021 | 23-26 | 1-4 | 22-22 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 |
Ranked no. 289, Sumit got to the 1st round after beating Andres Santamarta Roig 6-4 6-2 and Alexander Ritschard 6-4 1-6 7-5.
In the qualifications, The Indian defeated Ritschard (6-4 1-6 7-5). During the match Nagal scored 103 points vs Ritschard’s 100. The Indian was exceptionally aggressive to blast 39 winners.
About the serving games, Nagal was unable to score even 1 ace for the entire match and he was very solid in conceding no double faults for the entire match. Sumit Nagal lost the serve 5 times and he saved 6 break points. Furthermore, Nagal put 77% of his first serves in, winning 60% (39/65) of the points behind his 1st serve and 53% (10/19) on the 2nd serve. Nagal broke Ritschard 5 times after converting 29% of his break points (5/17).
Overall Performance in this tournament
Nagal started his run at this tournament from the qualifications. In the main draw, he has conceded 1 set in the tournament to win 53% of the points he played.
The Indian’s best result of the year was reaching the semifinal in the Trieste Challenger and the Tampere Challenger.
Sumit has a composed 32-26 win-loss record in 2025, 28-22 on clay (See FULL STATS).
Previously in the Valencia Challenger
Previously, his best result was reaching the 1st round in 2022 and 2023. See his history.
Tennis Scores in Valencia Challenger
- Carlos Lopez MontagudLopez Montagud – Elmer MollerMoller (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Pol Martin TiffonMartin Tiffon – Stefano TravagliaTravaglia (7-5 1-6 7-6(5)) – Stats, scores, rankings
- Pablo Llamas RuizLlamas Ruiz – Ignacio BuseBuse (6-4 6-4) – Stats, scores, rankings
Upcoming matches in the draw
- Stefano TravagliaTravaglia – Pol Martin TiffonMartin Tiffon (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Marco TrungellitiTrungelliti – Nerman FaticFatic (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Christoph NegrituNegritu – Vit KoprivaKopriva (0-2) – H2H and prediction
- Jan ChoinskiChoinski – Miguel DamasDamas (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Ivan GakhovGakhov – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Sumit NagalNagal – (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Pedro Martinez PorteroMartinez Portero – Albert Ramos-VinolasRamos-Vinolas (0-1) – H2H and prediction
- Bernabe Zapata MirallesZapata Miralles – Luka PavlovicPavlovic (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Zdenek KolarKolar – Carlos Sanchez JoverSanchez Jover (0-0) – H2H and prediction
- Henri SquireSquire – (1-0) – H2H and prediction
- Filip Cristian JianuCristian Jianu – Cezar Cretu (ROU)Cretu (ROU) (1-0) – H2H and prediction